HealthSouth Whistleblower Gets Jail Time

The former chief financial officer for HealthSouth Corp., who exposed the company's $2.7 billion accounting firm, was sentenced to 27 months in prison -- by far the longest sentence given to any executive at the company.

Weston Smith was one of five former chief financial officers at HealthSouth charged in the scandal. Smith had pleaded guilty to fraud charges, was ordered to forfeit $1.5 million, and will serve one year of probation after his release. Three other former finance chiefs, all sentenced by other judges, received little if any jail time. A day earlier, a judge upheld his sentences of probation time for former vice president Richard Botts and a week in prison for former finance chief Michael Martin.